Daily Self-Blessing with Aphrodite

A daily self-blessing and self-consecration at the altar of Aphrodite is a devotional practice that I have been doing for many years as a way to generate a field of love within and around me, so that all I do in the day comes from love and returns to love. Here is one of my daily practice incantations:

Aphrodite of the seaFriend of dove and sacred beeQueen of sensualityLay your blessing upon meThat I may walk in love and beauty.

I actually set this to music and I sing this blessing. As I do this blessing, I envision myself walking through my day, with waves and sea foam trailing behind me, with flowers growing up wherever I have been, with bees working industriously around me, and with doves flying overhead. I envision that I am a seamless part of the natural world, and that everything is literally made from the substance of love, with love overflowing the fountain of my heart and flowing into the world.

Yeshe Rabbit is a dedicated Priestess of Aphrodite who has been an enthusiastic wanderer along the winding path of esoterica for over 20 years. Her interests include tarot, herbalism, shamanic and indigenous spiritual practices, myth and storytelling, drumming, singing, ecstatic ritual, plant/stone/animal lore, and astrology. She is a regular teacher/presenter at local and national gatherings, including the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium, PantheaCon, the Berkeley Pagan Festival, and others. Yeshe Rabbit helps magical folk find their perfect treasures at her shop in Oakland, The Sacred Well, and serves as the Presiding High Priestess of the Bay Area's Come As You Are Coven. She is also a Priestess in the Bay Area Temple of Aphrodite. See her other writings at the Way of the Rabbit Blog.